sunspot cycle

sunspot cycle

noun Astronomy.
the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
Compare solar cycle.
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Sunspot cycle is always a great word to know.
So is star. Does it mean:
a celestial body with a mass of gas that is hot enough to produce and sustain nuclear fusion, thus producing luminosity
any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space: when such a body enters the earth's atmosphere it is heated to luminosity and becomes a meteor
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